The topic of this work is the collision of parallel worlds demonstrated with the notion of "dooring": the misfortune of an opening car door in the way of cyclists.
A formal bracket between the two galleries of the Kunstverein is constituted by the allusion of a street crossing both rooms.
A tableau vivant at the opening shows different phases of the unfortunate collision at the same time. Amongst metal cubes whose measurements correspond with the details in log books of real cars, a memorial for those having been "doored" rises up the wall. From there a loudspeaker transports our song "doored in downtown".
With the sentence "cars impede the traffic", which is almost hidden by the metal boxes, we quote the civilization critic Ivan Illich. He concludes that the transport of people - considering all following costs as accidents, environmental pollution etc. - asks for too high a price if it allows at any point of the system higher velocities than can be achieved with the bicycle.
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"Pharadnoia" is an artificial word, evoking in its German pronunciation
associations between the notions "Fahrrad" (Fahrrad = German for
bicycle) and "Paranoia"
press release
the
bell of a bicycle rings;
a voice produces bass sounds, amplified
Doored
In Downtown
to the melody
of "Mendocino"
On
a late September morning
A young man on his bike
Rode down to the city
He pedalled his way
On that sunny day
Burning fat instead of oil and petrol
Suddenly
A suv´s
Driver tried to get out of his car
The cyclist was shocked
His way was blocked
He pulled the brakes as hard as he could do
Doored
in downtown
Doored
in downtown
A
friend of us has been
Doored
in downtown
When
he on his bike
Was
hit by the strike
Of
a car door in his way
Through
downtown
He
crashed into
The
door and flew
While
clinging to his handlebars in panic
Onto
the ground
He
fell and was found
With
broken bones and broken motivation
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